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My arrangements of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons represent a kind of expansion of the sonic palette of the master’s original score. The orchestral variety is inspired primarily by the history of time, people, fashion, architecture, and by everyday sounds that surrounded Vivaldi. Some musical fragments are expanded in sound and duration, too. The pushing of the boundaries of the original volume of these fragments is dictated by Vivaldi’s music itself, and in the course of the work it was as if he simply drew me in to going further and taking my listener away, immersing me in a voluminous musical palette of sounds.
The quiet, lyrical parts of the concerts sometimes creep in like dreams, where past and present time spaces collide as if in mirrors.
My re-creations of Vivaldi’s concertos are an experiment in hearing the music of a genius in a slightly different way.
Aziza Sadikova, 2024